Math::GSL::Sum(3)

NAME
Math::GSL::Sum - Functions to accelerate the convergence of a series using the Levin u-transform.

SYNOPSIS
    use Math::GSL::Sum qw/:all/;

    my $w = gsl_sum_levin_u_alloc(5);
    $values = [8,2,3,4,6];
    my ($status, $sum_accel, $abserr) = gsl_sum_levin_u_accel($values, 5, $w);
    gsl_sum_levin_u_free($w);

    my $w2 = gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_alloc(5);
    my ($status2, $sum_accel2, $abserr_trunc) = gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_accel($values, 5, $w2);
    gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_free($w);

DESCRIPTION
Here is a list of all the functions included in this module :

* gsl_sum_levin_u_alloc($n) - This function allocates a workspace for a Levin u-transform of $n terms.
* gsl_sum_levin_u_free($w) - This function frees the memory associated with the workspace $w.
* gsl_sum_levin_u_accel($array, $array_size, $w) - This function takes the terms of a series in the array reference $array of size $array_size and computes the extrapolated limit of the series using a Levin u-transform. Additional working space must be provided in $w. The function returns multiple values in this order : 0 if the operation succeeded, 1 otherwise, the extrapolated sum and an estimate of the absolute error. The actual term-by-term sum is returned in $w->{sum_plain}. The algorithm calculates the truncation error (the difference between two successive extrapolations) and round-off error (propagated from the individual terms) to choose an optimal number of terms for the extrapolation. All the terms of the series passed in through array should be non-zero.
* gsl_sum_levin_u_minmax
* gsl_sum_levin_u_step
* gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_alloc($n) - This function allocates a workspace for a Levin u-transform of $n terms, without error estimation.
* gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_free($w) - This function frees the memory associated with the workspace $w.
* gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_accel($array, $array_size, $w) - This function takes the terms of a series in the array reference $array of size $array_size and computes the extrapolated limit of the series using a Levin u-transform. Additional working space must be provided in $w. The function returns multiple values in this order : 0 if the operation succeeded, 1 otherwise, the extrapolated sum and an estimate of the error. The actual term-by-term sum is returned in $w->{sum_plain}. The algorithm terminates when the difference between two successive extrapolations reaches a minimum or is sufficiently small. To improve the reliability of the algorithm the extrapolated values are replaced by moving averages when calculating the truncation error, smoothing out any fluctuations.
* gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_minmax
* gsl_sum_levin_utrunc_step

AUTHORS
Jonathan Leto <jonathan@leto.net> and Thierry Moisan <thierry.moisan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008 Jonathan Leto and Thierry Moisan

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.